Over the next five years, expansion could create 2,000 jobs and grow economic output by $1.5 billion. A thriving Wyoming will be more attractive to recruiting and retaining providers to live and work in our great state.

When people get the healthcare they need, they can find work, get job training, go back to school, hold multiple seasonal jobs, and stay employed if they have a health condition.

Medicaid would be a lifeline for our rural hospitals. Medicaid expansion will drastically reduce the high costs of uncompensated care and bring down healthcare costs.

Medicaid expansion will help small businesses that can’t afford to provide health insurance. Businesses in every county, in every industry, and of all sizes will benefit when workers are covered by the program.

When individuals, especially those with low incomes, can get the healthcare they need, they can afford food and other basic necessities, catch health problems early, maintain employment, and have a better quality of life.